SAN BERNADINO – The state’s vast transportation system received a major infusion of cash today, as the California Transportation Commission (CTC) allocated $878 million in funding to 114 projects that will support job growth, alleviate traffic delays, and repair aging roads and bridges.

“The benefits these projects bring are a huge boon to our economy,” said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty, “This investment in our transportation system creates jobs and improves the quality of life for all Californians.”

The allocations include $476 million from Proposition 1B, a 2006 voter-approved transportation bond. In total, nearly $15.5 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been put to work statewide.

“This billion-dollar investment helps preserve California’s great infrastructure of the past and put thousands of Californian’s to work building something new,” said Brian Kelly, Acting Secretary of the Business, Transportation & Housing Agency. “These investments in preservation and innovation are absolutely critical to California’s economy: In 2010, traffic congestion caused 95 million hours of delay, wasting fuel and squandering productive, economic activity.”

Highlights of the funding allocations include:

City of Riverside/Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) – Construct a four
lane grade separation for railroad lines at Riverside Avenue ($12.1 million – Prop 1B/TCIF
funds).

San Bernardino County – This project will provide a multipurpose facility that will protect
California’s transportation infrastructure and promote interstate commerce. It will construct a
commercial vehicle facility on I-15 near Wheaton Springs (Joint Point of Entry (JPOE) at
Nevada State Line). Eventually a facility will be constructed to house the new Agriculture
Inspection Station once funding is approved ($36.8 million – Prop 1B/SHOPP funds).

City of Highland/San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) – In the City of
Highland, on Greenspot Road between Santa Paula Street and the City Limits south of the
Santa Margarita River. Construct new bridge across Santa Ana River, realign 0.45 mile of
Greenspot Road with bike lanes and turn lanes, rehabilitate existing Greenspot Road and
historical bridge for trail use ($1 million – Prop 1B/local funds).

City of Moreno Valley/Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) – Cactus
Avenue third lane widening in the city of Moreno Valley, from Interstate 215 east bound off ramp
to 1,000 feet east of Veterans Way ($560,000 – Prop 1B/local funds).